Postscript is all but gone, and today, newer font standards such as TrueType and OpenType rule the roost. Here's how we got from desktop PostScript in the early '80s to today. When the Mac first ...

With Apple's next-generation operating system, Lion, looming, Apple isn't slowing development of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. The company recently unveiled fixes for displaying OpenType fonts and printing ...

A font handling bug in OS X 10.6.7 has resulted in printing and PDF creation problems when using OpenType PostScript fonts. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

When the OpenType font format was announced more than 12 years ago, one of its most promising features was a new level of intelligence built into the font. The idea was that the font could ...

MacAppware, a division of 128bit Technologies, has added two new fonts to its commercial use 1000 OpenType Fonts collection for creative Mac users. Each font is in OpenType font format and can be used ...

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Along with the typographic freedom Mac users have always enjoyed, there have often been strange font conflicts, inexplicable font substitutions, and even system crashes related to corrupt fonts. Mac ...

Alongside iPhoto 9.1.2, Apple also released a font update for Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which is aimed at fixing the OpenType text bugs we reported a few weeks ago. The update “addresses issues ...